More than 150 students and 

faculty gathered at the University 
of Michigan Museum of Art on 
Thursday evening to attend “The 
Art of Fashion,” a bicentennial 
birthday 
bash 
event, 
which 

featured an exposition displaying 
fashion 
throughout 
recent 

decades, with a focus on vintage 
clothing. 

This event was co-hosted by 

campus organizations MUSIC 
Matters, 
EnspiRED, 
NOiR 

Runway Fashion, Bronze Elegance 
and SHEI Magazine. This is the 
third annual SpringFest fashion 
show and the first collective event 
between these prominent fashion 
organizations on campus.

Ross sophomore Ayla Ahmed, 

a co-organizer of the event 
and SpingFest senior producer, 
introduced the exhibition and 
spoke about the origins of the 
show.

“It was originally devised by 

MUSIC Matters as a means to 
unite the fashion community on 
campus,” she said.

The show featured twenty 

models half from Bronze Elegance 
and half from NOiR Runway 
Fashion. Each of the four themes 
featured five models. The first 
part of the show launched into 
an upbeat Renaissance-inspired 
theme.

Following, 
an 
Asian-fusion 

theme was introduced. This 
theme inspired by Asian-inspired 
tradition.

The 
third 
theme 
was 

represented by exclusively male 
models, displaying themes of the 
present, taking on a more modern 
and simplistic approach.

Concluding the exhibition was 

the finale, “Visions of the Future.”

Aaron 
Pelo, 
editor-in-chief 

of SHEI Magazine, expressed 
his 
enthusiasm 
for 
working 

collaboratively 
with 
the 

UMMA and the other fashion 
organizations.

“The 
other 
fashion 

organizations are the best of the 

best,” he said. “It’s absolutely 
inspiring to be in their company 
because they all run such good 
shows. Working with the UMMA 
was such a real pleasure for me, 
and I think for everybody, just 
because they’re such visionaries 
here. I think the final show was 
really a knockout.”

Ahmed was also impressed by 

the final product.

“The SpringFest fashion show 

in the past has always been held 
in the Diag,” she said. “But this 
year UMMA approached us 

about partnering with them, and 
I think this has been immensely 
successful, having it in this artistic 
space, and being able to have the 
clothes influenced by the artwork 
around us.”

LSA junior Yiwen Lin said this 

was her second year attending 
the fashion show, and she was 
impressed by the change in 
scenery.

“In the museum, we have 

a different context,” she said. 
“It’s really cool. It works very 
well.”

A pair of bills creating new 

tax incentives for businesses 
employing Michigan residents 
is moving to the Michigan 
House of Representatives after 
the state Senate passed it by a 
32-5 vote Wednesday.

Under the bills, nicknamed 

the “Good Jobs for Michigan” 
program, 
businesses 
with 

at least 250 new employees 
making at least 125 percent of 
the annual average wage for 
their region would be able to 
keep up to 100 percent of the 
income taxes taken out of their 
employees’ paychecks for 10 
years. Businesses with at least 
500 new employees making at 
least 100 percent of the average 
wage would receive up to a 50 
percent abatement lasting five 
years. The state is divided 
into 10 prosperity regions, 
for which the average wage is 
calculated independently, but 
the average salary for the state 
as a whole is about $45,000.

Specifically, 
the 
bills 

authorize 
the 
payment 
of 

withholding 
tax 
capture 

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State house 
set to vote 
on business 
tax relief

GOVERNMENT

“Good jobs for Michigan” 
bill passes state senate by 
32 - 5 vote on Wednesday

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

KEVIN ZHENG/Daily

LSA student Yara Gayar walks down the runway in a fashion show hosted by EnspiRED, NOiR Runway Fashion, 
Bronze Elegance and SHEI Magazine at the UMMA on Thursday.

SpringFest fashion show celebrates 
history of art for bicentennial year

The event featured clothing styles from recent decades, centered on vintage

KATHERINA SOURINE

Daily Staff Reporter

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Deir Yassin Remembered, 

a 
local 
group 
famous 
for 

its weekly protests outside 
Temple Beth Israel in Ann 
Arbor, has been placed on a list 
of hate groups compiled by the 
Southern Poverty Law Center 
under 
the 
subcategory 
of 

Holocaust denial. According to 
the Washtenaw Jewish News, 
Deir Yassin Remembered is 
“the only sustained action 
targeting a Jewish house of 
worship 
anywhere 
in 
the 

United States.”

Mark 
Potok, 
editor-in-

chief of the SPLC’s quarterly 
journal, explained the addition 
in 
a 
recent 
interview 
on 

Michigan Radio, stating the 
group defended Nazism.

“We list them because over 

the years they have come 
to more and more explicitly 
embrace real-life Holocaust 
denial,” he said. “The kind of 
Holocaust denial that these 
people practice is essentially 
a defense of Germany and 
National Socialism.”

The group’s name references 

See GROUP, Page 3

City group 
designated 
by SPLC as 
hate group

ANN ARBOR

Deir Yassin Remembered 
cited for Holocaust denial, 
weekly synogogue protests

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

Public 
Health 
student 

Vikrant Garg, co-organizer of 
activist group Students4Justice, 
said he never really felt safe in 
the Michigan Union until the 
activist group posed its sit-in 
there in February.

“It really allowed me to 

imagine what an activist center 
that centered people of color and 
marginalized 
students 
could 

look like,” he said. 

In a different sphere of 

activism, 
LSA 
sophomore 

Amanda Delekta, the author 
of 
the 
#NotMyCampus 

petition that received over 300 
signatures, penned the letter to 
alert the University of Michigan 
that many conservative students 
didn’t feel at home or included in 
the political conversation.

“I 
think 
#NotMyCampus 

accomplished its main purpose 
in first identifying there is 
a 
significant 
conservative 

population 
on 
campus 
and 

then creating a platform for 

conservative students to speak 
out on following the election,” 
she said. 

Though Delekta and Garg 

differ in their methods of 
activism, both are examples 
of 
students 
involved 
with 

the multiple protests, sit-ins 
and 
petitions 
that 
cropped 

up following the incendiary 
presidential election. Though 
months have passed since the 
election, in terms of activism, 
neither student feels like their 
job is done.

“I think since the election, 

the University has tried to 
create forums for students to 
participate in,” Delekta said. 
“However, I still think there is 
a long way to go before we reach 
a place where students of all 
ideologies are able to respect one 
another.”

Students4Justice 
aims 
to 

combat oppression and injustice 
on campus. After the election, 
the club hosted multiple sit-ins 
and outlined a list of demands 
calling for the University to 
respond to bias incidents on 

Activists aim 
to promote 
unity despite 
 

differences

Bentley Historical Library unveils 
digital Michigan Daily archive

See ACTIVISTS, Page 3

EMMA RICHTER/Daily

Bentley Historical Library Director Terrence J. McDonald speaks on the importance of University history at the unveiling of the Michigan Daily archive in the Gerald 
R. Ford Presidential Library on Thursday.

GOVERNMENT

Students across the political sphere 
hope to create a more inclusive campus

CARLY RYAN

Daily Staff Reporter

New collection compiles over 200,000 pages, 316 volumes spanning 125 years

Twelve decades of student 

reporting, 
316 
volumes 
of 

breaking coverage and 200,000 
pages of University of Michigan 
news were revealed Thursday 
night as the Bentley Historical 
Library unveiled 125 years’ 
worth of digitized archives of 
The Michigan Daily.

The Daily has been a facet 

on campus since 1890 and has 
covered both national and local 

issues such as politics, social 
movements, higher education 
and changing demographics of 
the University.

The event was attended by 

student journalists, alumni and 
prominent University leaders — 
including University President 
Mark 
Schlissel 
and 
James 

and Anne Duderstadt, former 
University president and vice 
president, respectively. Prior 
to the digitization, previous 
issues of the Daily could only be 
viewed in person at the Bentley 
or at the Student Publications 

Building, where only bound 
paper copies are available.

Now, 
however, 
the 
new 

database, consisting of digital 
preservation 
and 
online 

infrastructure of the Daily from 
1890 to 2014, eliminates the 
need to view physical copies and 
makes all the Daily’s content 
searchable 
and 
browsable 

for alumni, researchers and 
historians alike.

The 
financial 
support 
of 

the Kemp Family Foundation 
is largely responsible for the 
digitization.

John B. Kemp, who attended 

the University as both an 
undergraduate and law student 
in the ’60s, has vast familial 
roots at the University and 
wanted to be able to view his 
time at the University through 
digital records of the Daily.

The Bentley has archived 

similarly pertinent materials, 
particularly 
historical 

documents, 
student 
records, 

maps 
and 
University 

intercollegiate 
athletics 

documentation.

ALEXA ST. JOHN
Managing News Editor

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